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Bill Would Prohibit Privatization of CT Prisons
The Judiciary Committee heard testimony this week in favor of a bill that would prohibit the privatization of prisons in ...
Arizona could sell a prison for immigrants, and its soul, for $1 | Opinion
Arizona wants to lease the closed Marana prison site to the feds or a private contractor for $1 a year so it can be used as ...
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Idled Northern Michigan private prison to reopen as ICE detention facility
GEO Group entered into a contract for the "immediate activation" of the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin.
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Kemmerer balks at immigration jail as private prisons eye southwest Wyoming, again
The for-profit prison industry has come knocking again in southwestern Wyoming, this time in Kemmerer. Unlike during ...
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Michigan’s only private prison to reopen under ICE contract
The 1,800-bed North Lake Facility, the state’s only private prison and located just north of Baldwin in Webber Township, is ...
Private prison says it has ‘right’ to run ICE detention in KS, doesn’t need city’s OK
The largest private prison company in the U.S. appears poised to pursue a contract with ICE to detain immigrants, despite ...
Private prison company reopens Michigan facility as ICE detention center
North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin has been closed since 2022 following a Biden administration executive order.
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Prison opponents tell SD Supreme Court the state should have county permission to build
The case is an appeal from a group called Neighbors Opposed to Prison Expansion, or NOPE. Lincoln County Judge Jennifer ...
Private for-profit company secures ICE contract to house immigrants in Michigan prison
GEO Group, a for-profit company, said it will make $70 million a year from housing immigrant inmates in a Michigan prison.